A number of calls had been received reporting a deer at the bottom of the cliff. Swanage RNLI ILB was launched also to investigate and soon found the small deer in a cave.
Deer are quite common in this area and the advice from the Country Park Wardens is to leave the deer as they will get themselves out either by jumping back up the ledges or actually swim!
The crew of the lifeboat decided that they would recover the deer and released it ashore in Durlston Bay.
Shortly afterwards the team were tasked to Winspit to support colleagues from St Albans with a female who had fallen suffering a head injury. Rescue 189 from St Athan was tasked and airlifted the lady to Southampton.
Rescue 189 - normally seen in Wales and North Devon !
Finally as we were dealing with the airlift , the team were called to a report of clothing left on Swanage beach.
The clothing and personal items (including an inflatable unicorn) had been left for sometime and there were fears someone was in the water. As the team arrived someone made themselves known and it was quickly established all was well.
Please if you see someone in trouble or some thing not right - 999 Coastguard rather than facebook.
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